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Adrian Raine Reckons He Can Predict if You'll Be a Criminal
Dr Adrian Raine. (Photo courtesy of the University of Southern Carolina.) The future that psychologist Dr Adrian Raine predicts – from a civil liberties perspective, at least – falls somewhere between...
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Getting to Know the Gun-Loving Gays, Jews and Mothers of America
Image via PinkPistols.org. Six months on from the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, America loves guns more than ever before. Manufacturers can’t churn them out fast enough to replace the...
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A Few Impressions: ‘American Psycho’: Ten Years Later/Twenty Years Later
Image by Courtney Nicholas I listened to the American Psycho audiobook recently. It was released in 2011 and is narrated by Pablo Schreiber, who performs his task quite well. He doesn’t clown it up,...
View ArticleLost in the Bradley Manning Narrative: What He Actually Leaked
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A New York anarchist has been jailed for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury about his political beliefs, his friends and the legal support he provided to Occupy Wall Street. Gerald...
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Pretty Girl Bullshit: Robin Thicke's New Video Is Horrible, Misogynist Bullshit
Hi I'm Bertie, this column is basically a place for me to call bullshit on girl related things I think are stupid. I'm sorry that you've almost definitely already seen that and now, for the second...
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Making Fake Ecstasy with the Meth-Smoking Beach Boys of Indonesia
Off the coast of Lombok, Indonesia, there are three islands called The Gilis – a mini archipelago of paradises where nothing much happens. There are no motorised vehicles on the islands – just...
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This week's World Peace Update marks a whole year since the first instalment of this eternally depressing column. So what have we learned? Mostly that the human race doesn't deserve to live on this...
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What the Next Six Johnny Borrell Albums Will Sound Like
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The Cops Destroyed My Friend's Business Because He Made a Porn Site for the...
My friend Adam was, until recently, making a living as a self-employed web designer in South Carolina. He'd been doing it for a couple of years, and had built sites for various small organisations...
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VICE Premiere: Pimp Rapper 100s Dropped a Video for "1999"
It doesn't seem that hard out here for a pimp, at least when you tune into a 100s music video. The Cali-bred MC, who we introduced to you back in October of last year, has sharpened up his...
View ArticleMotherboard: High Country - Part 2
David Bienenstock doesn't just smoke weed. He is weed. Cannabis is his mantra, his well-being and raison d'être. Hang around the guy long enough and by mere association complete strangers will start...
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An Interview with Wu Ming, the Mysterious Collective of Anti-Establishment...
The Wu Ming collective. All Wu Ming images courtesy of Wu Ming. Wu Ming is the nom de plume of a mysterious European quartet of anti-establishment writers. In Mandarin, their name means “anonymous” or...
View ArticleAlexis Vasilikos' Photos Make Summer Look Surreal
I could spend a couple of paragraphs discussing Alexis Vassilikos' use of surrealism and serendipity, but all I really care about is that his photos make me feel like my insides are made of sand and...
View ArticleMeet the Aussie Boyband Who Sexually Harass Women for Lulz Then Put It on...
Meet the Aussie Boyband Who Sexually Harass Women for Lulz Then Put It on YouTube
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A Few Impressions: The Parallel Structure in 'Strangers on a Train'
Image by Courtney Nicholas One of the strategies that Patricia Highsmith employs in her first novel, Strangers on a Train, is to bounce the narrative between two characters. As the title suggests,...
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Weirdly, None of the Conspiracy Theorists at Bilderberg 2013 Made Any Sense
Every year, the Bilderberg Group – a collection of the world's most powerful people – get together to discuss how to keep on being powerful. Now, considering that the past fortnight hasn't been a...
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Question of the Day: Who Would You Send to a Warzone?
Nick Griffin and Syrian Prime Minister, Wael Nader Al-Halqi. (Photo via @nickgriffinmep) So Nick Griffin, the famed Islamophobe, is in Syria buddying up with the Syrian government and, by extension,...
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